C-block (Honors)
AGENDA :
1. Journal: What is the difference between an argument and a feud? What does it take to resolve either?
2. Introduce sonnets: how many sonnets Shakespeare wrote and their sequence; internal structure (3 quatrains and a couplet) and rhythm (iambic pentameter)
3. Review and discuss sonnets 18, 116, 130
4. Read prologue.
5. Recognize prologue as sonnet and break it into its iambic pentameter line by line
HOMEWORK: 1. Underline 'twosomes' in the Prologue. In other words, how many times does the word "two" appear? How are 'twosomes' emphasizes/reinforced in other ways?
2. Underline words that have to do with love and fighting. Are there more words about love or fighting? Why do you think that is?
3. Write your own prologue, in sonnet form, for another piece of literature you have read.
D-block
AGENDA :
1. Journal: What would you invent to make life better? Why? Describe your invention.
2. Review Shakespeare scavenger hunt and discuss Elizabethean Era, ideas and outlook of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, theater in Shakespeare's time, etc.
3. Introduce sonnets
HOMEWORK: 1. Read sonnets 18, 116, and 130 and make an attempt to summarize what each is about.
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